The Tropertales section is a goldmine of the sort of crazy and awful that used to be cataloged on the old Portal of Evil.

One of the most amazing sections to skim through was the TroperTales under "Brilliant but Lazy", an avalance of pseudo-spergy, self-impressed smugness, though that description could easily extend to many other TroperTales sections. Other sections are filled with Tropers public airing their delusions of being badasses, of being special unique individuals, of having razor-sharp wit, and in many cases are just plain crazy and creepy.

This storyline is a perfect example of how inept most comedic webcomic creators are when they attempt to produce dramatic storylines that are supposed to tug at the heartstrings of the audience. You the reader being asked to care, to be moved by one-dimensional characters, by flat, lifeless drawings trying to imply flat, lifeless emotions.

It's especially egregious in CAD's case, as it's a poorly written, lazily drawn shitfest, created by an egotistical jackass.
CAD's only relevance to webcomics and sole reason for it's readership keeping up with it is that it's been around for a while and managed to leech off a market who were happy to read a Penny Arcade wannabe because they needed to see the same jokes done worse elsewhere so they don't have to leave the internet for another minute a day. There is no real reason for it to exist. It merely fills a gap that could be occupied by any number of bland-at-best gaming comics that basically make the same jokes with a very similar cast, the only difference being that it was there earlyish in the game and is "established".

I'm more amazed that Megatokyo, which was, years ago one of the big name webcomics, is still publishing. The creator, Fred Gallager, is still churning it out even as Megatokyo continues to slide deeper into obscurity and irrelavance, because he's got nowhere else to go.
Same with all of these other long-runners. PvP may be blandly unfunny but Kurtz at least has attempted to hone his stylings. Not that I care for them, but he's made the attempt which is more than can be said for many of the long-running shitty webcomics put out by people who don't care about knowing how to write, or getting better at drawing, and why should they, with readerships that want only more of the same gruel.

Sluggy Freelance is still ongoing, for instance, which blows my mind every time I realize it and check it and see nothing has changed, it still has the same features that repelled my when I checked it out years ago - claustrophobic little panels, snaking chains of text bubbles crammed full of words words words words, posterised grayscale gradients as backgrounds and no variation in line width whatsoever. And, being a pioneer in the field, Pete Abrams still seems to swerve into hamfisted attempts at serious, epic drama.

Then there's the truly repulsive, the somewhat popular Dominic Deegan, a comic set in perhaps the most poorly realized fantasy world, that's been running since 2002, whose creator is in his thirties and still draws like a teenage producer of scribbly anime fanart.

Yes, Ryan Sohmer is a terrible writer. Every single joke in LICD or his other comics like The Gutters (http://www.the-gutters.com) is the lowest-hanging fruit, except for when the punchline is "Remember this cartoon/80s tv show/etc.? Do you? Do you?"

Great so far, but we have to make sure the girlfriend is a sassy chick who tells it like it is and there has to be a mascot, a creature or robot that wants to take over the world or constantly threatens people with harm, oh it's so wacky, then you make an awkward, hamfistedly executed swerve into sudden drama, and someone gets killed and big important stuff happens and White Guy 1 is revealed to be the Chosen One to fulfill a prophecy to save the world and we discover Somebody's Girlfriend was abused by her parents.

There've been plenty of awful gaming webcomics around, especially after the Great Penny Arcade Ripping Off of the early 00's, and what amazes me is, leaving aside Buckley's constant, ruthless self-promotion that chance, fortune, whatever decided this was the series that deserved success of a sort, out of an ocean of similar product.

The wacky zany guy who says wacky zany things, the sarcastic sidekick, The Girl who stands around rolling her eyes and sighing at Those Silly Men, the wacky mascot who often threatens bodily harm. Nothing really to distinguish CTRL+ALT+DEL from any of the other similar trash. Even the sudden swerve into overly dramatic storylines.

Seriously, there was a storyline about the douchey manchild main character accidentally flashing his junk at a female co-worker in the restroom and by golly, his wacky, in-your-face humor about the situation led to her feeling better about herself and her troubled marriage.

But he also has another shitty comic, that is supposed to skewer the comic book industry, with different guest artists.

http://www.the-gutters.com

and it's just what you'd expect from the maker of LICD, complete with overblown "Ha ha, I ain't PC, yo!" humor and smugness.

Yeah, guys are going to be lured in only to discover most of the women in class are 45-year old mothers with two kids who are constantly reminding people of the fact. "As a mother with two kids I feel that..."